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1. What is Destructive Recording?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

2. What is ultrasonic?
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Above 20kHz

3. What is Routing?
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Above 20kHz
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Sending the sound where you want it to go

4. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
High frequency sound speaker
Business
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
High frequency sound speaker

5. What is SPL
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

6. What is Recording?
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Business
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

7. What is Mixing?
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Business

8. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

9. What are the four processes involved in digital recording?
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)

10. Electromagnetic Spectrum
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

11. What does a Sound Wave look like?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
//////
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Low frequency sound speaker

12. What is the Midrange?
Federal Communications Commission
Middle frequency sound speaker
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

13. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Muting sounds above peak
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
In order to get a new perspective on the project

14. What are Plosives?
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Federal Communications Commission
Middle frequency sound speaker

15. What is Infrasonic?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
From the peak to the trough
Below 20Hz
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.

16. What is a Tweeter?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
High frequency sound speaker
Making the sounds more usable.
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

17. What is a Woofer?
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Low frequency sound speaker

18. What is a Cycle
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio

19. How does a Dynamic Mic work?
Making the sounds more usable.
Cycles per second
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

20. What is Compression?
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

21. What is Infrasonic?
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Below 20Hz
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up

22. What is Mastering?
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Muting sounds above peak
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques

23. What is sound measured in?
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Decibels (dB).
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met

24. What are the four processes involved in digital recording?
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.

25. What does FCC stand for
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Federal Communications Commission

26. What is the Midrange?
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Muting sounds above peak
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Middle frequency sound speaker

27. What is a Tweeter?
High frequency sound speaker
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Sending the sound where you want it to go

28. What are the Three Basic Functions of a Console?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Business
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

29. What is Compression?
Cycles per second
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Low frequency sound speaker
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

30. What is Limiting?
Below 20Hz
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Middle frequency sound speaker
Muting sounds above peak

31. What are the levels of tones
Below 20Hz
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

32. What is Amplification?
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Making the sounds more usable.
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

33. What is our hearing range?
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
//////
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

34. What does a Sound Wave look like?
//////
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Muting sounds above peak
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

35. What are the parts of a Sound Wave
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
From the peak to the trough

36. What is a Cycle
Cycles per second
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

37. What are the Three Basic Functions of a Console?
Middle frequency sound speaker
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

38. What is Amplitude?
From the peak to the trough
S sounds - sounds that hiss
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Business

39. What is Recording?
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Muting sounds above peak

40. What is sound measured in?
Decibels (dB).
Low frequency sound speaker
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

41. What is Limiting?
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
From the peak to the trough
Muting sounds above peak

42. What is Mixing?
Cycles per second
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Sending the sound where you want it to go

43. What is Destructive Recording?
Above 20kHz
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

44. What is Amplitude?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Below 20Hz
From the peak to the trough

45. What is Mastering?
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Below 20Hz
High frequency sound speaker
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

46. What is frequency?
//////
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough

47. What are the levels of tones
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Low frequency sound speaker
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble

48. What is frequency?
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Federal Communications Commission
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy

49. Electromagnetic Spectrum
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

50. What is Editing?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

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